[p. 801] who has charge of the Mt. Air Elgin Butter Company (cooperative) plant, is a native of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, having been born in North Beaver Township, August 27, 1859. He is a son of Thomas and Cynthia (Hammel) Dungan.
Thomas Dungan was born in Virginia in 1799, and when a young man came to Pennsylvania, locating in what was then Beaver County, now Lawrence County. He was there elected to the State Legislature of Pennsylvania, serving in that office at the time Lawrence County was organized. He first settled in what is now Little Beaver Township, Lawrence County, on the farm now owned and occupied by Robert Miller, and moved later to the farm in North Beaver Township on which Emmet W. was born. His first marriage was with a Miss Witherspoon, by whom he had eleven children, the following being now living: Robert, William, who is a captain in the United States Army; George, a minister; John; and Albert, who is a member of Battery B, Regular Army. His second marriage was with Miss Cynthia Hammel, whose grandfather, a pioneer of the county, located on the present site of Bethel United Presbyterian Church. This union resulted in the birth of four children: Alonzo, who died at three years; Horace; Emmet W.; and Charles, deceased. Thomas Dungan died in 1873, and was survived many years by his widow, she dying in 1902, at the age of eighty-three years.
Emmet W. Dungan was reared on the home farm in North Beaver Township, and there attended the public schools. Except for three years spent in California, he has lived in Lawrence County all his life, and until 1900 was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He came into possession of a part of his father's farm, but this he disposed of at the date mentioned, when he took charge of the creamery. He is a stockholder and director of the company, and under his direction the plant has flourished and been successful beyond expectations. The company's officers are D. L. McCown, president; E. E. Taylor, secretary; and W. P. Kelso, treasurer. There is a demand for all the butter they can make, and the daily average is some 400 pounds. Mr. Dungan is also a stockholder and director of the Mt. Air Telephone Company, which was organized in 1908.
January 16, 1889, Mr. Dungan was United in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Effie Deringer, a daughter of Milo R. Deringer, of Ohio Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and they are parents of four children: Otis L., who is a stockholder in the Mt. Air Elgin Butter Company, and assists his father in the creamery; Lenna W.; Roscoe F.; and Lora Rose. In political views Mr. Dungan is an unswerving Republican. Fraternally he is a member of Enon Valley Lodge No. 916, I.O.O.F.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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